Quotes from Catherine Deneuve

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

I choose my roles carefully.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I did important films when I was very young.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.